For three months political India has been agog over a scandal centering around one of Prime Minister Nehru's principal aides, Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari, and one of Nehru's pet Socialist projects, the newly nationalized Life Insurance Corp. The scandal broke last November when Nehru's son-in-law, Feroze Gandhi,* rose in Parliament and asked the minister a pointed question: Had the new corporation used the premium payments of India's 5,500,000 life-insurance policyholders to buy up shares at above-market prices in companies controlled by a notorious stock speculator named Haridas Mundhra?
"That is not the fact," snapped Krishnamachari. Under heckling by Gandhi...
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